This bourgois analysis disguised as "20 lessons" is a baffling ahistorical take on power. He is firmly planted in liberal democracy lala land, apparently the last beacon against the twin evils of nazism and communism 😕. Snyder has uncritically accepted US State actions and positions (prior to Trump). He definitely has a hard on for Churchill, or just about any noble leader of the free world. He sees zero of the irony in discussing the persecution of muslims as terrorists as a Russian innovation. At the end he unravels into pure russiagate rambling. It is telling that when mentioning how important the Reichstag burning in 1933, he says about who set the fire, "we don't know, and it doesn't really matter"